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Construction could create parking shortage

The transformation of the 1,498-space Stegeman Coliseum parking lot to a $40 million research center and a new parking deck could result in a severe parking crunch, according to one official in Parking Services.   But a University spokesman said the transition shouldn’t be too bad since construction of a 700-car parking deck, slated to [...]

Agricultural proposal held

Students waiting for the master of agriculture leadership degree to be approved may have to wait a little longer due to a decision by the University Council Executive Committee Thursday afternoon.   The committee voted to send the proposal from the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences back to the Curriculum Committee for further review [...]

Adams discusses University’s future

  University President Michael Adams outlined in detail the University’s $2.5 billion Strategic Plan Thursday afternoon at the University Chapel and looked toward an optimistic future in his fourth State of the University Address. "The University of Georgia in the year 2010 will be a vastly different place than it is today," he said to [...]

Adams to deliver strategy

University President Michael Adams will elaborate on the Strategic Plan today at his State of the University Address, according to University officials. The plan, passed by the University Council in November, assists in setting priorities and directing the University’s course for the next decade. "It articulates three strategic directions the University needs to move in [...]

Roundtable credits Bootle

Former governors, judges and attorneys gathered Tuesday morning in Hodgson Hall to discuss events surrounding the University’s desegregation — some 40 years after Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter-Gault integrated the University. ‘This is an opportunity to have a conversation not possible 40 years ago,’ said Patricia Bell-Scott, moderator of the roundtable discussion and professor of [...]

Final brief filed

Bringing the University’s ongoing appeals battle one step closer to a possible ruling this spring, lawyers representing plaintiffs in the case filed a final brief Monday to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta. The lawsuit began more than a year ago when Jennifer Johnson, a white woman, was denied admission to the University. [...]

40 years later: Alumni recall

Federal Judge William A. Bootle of Macon, Friday ordered University of Georgia officials to admit "immediately" two negro students, thus opening the doors of the nation’s oldest chartered university on integrated status for the first time in the 175 year history of the institution. — The Red & Black, Jan. 5, 1961   The University [...]

New pipes change paths

The flow of pedestrian traffic near Memorial Hall Plaza will be affected until August by the construction of the $420,000 Central Campus Chill Water Loop, which will link together several buildings in the vicinity.   Part of the plaza will be demolished, and a chain-link fence and concrete borders already have been installed around the [...]

Student Affairs to see changes

The director of Minority Services and Programs was not asked to renew his contract for employment when it expires June 30, a move he said has caused him to become the "victim" of a new partial restructuring of Student Affairs.   Sherwood Thompson, who has served as director for the office and the African-American Cultural [...]

Admissions policy defended

The University doesn’t have a quota for minority enrollment and is in compliance with a 1978 Supreme Court ruling, according to an appellate brief filed Dec. 15 by lawyers defending the University for its use of race as an admissions factor. The brief states the plaintiffs, three white women who claim they were denied admission [...]

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